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ao3 rant cont.
Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:25 am Back to profiles. If I click on someone the first thing it shows me beneath their name and icon is a list of their top five fandoms they have written for. Underneath it has recent fics, with the most recent five. Then recent series, with the top five, then recent bookmarks with the top 5.
I hate this page, I never want to see these most recent 5. I want to see all. Also fandoms they've written for is so needless, why is that the top thing?
I just miss the personality of a ffn profile with the person showing a bit of personality before just a list of all their fics with an extra button to get to their favourites.
Not to mention, how much faster scrolling through ffn fics actually are.
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I can on average fit two ao3 fics on my screen, that is if they don't have too many tags and notice I have disabled additional tags by default to help out. (Why is there not a button to disable characters and pairings as well?) Fics with a longer description or more characters can easily fill my entire screen.
Okay, what about ffn?
I can easily fit five!!! There's limits to how big the descriptions are allowed to be and all the fic info is efficiently written on two lines so it's rarely more than that. ao3 does allow for a lot more info it can't be denied. I do like how every ffn fic is allowed a custom icon though. Also that publish date is right there.
Don't get me wrong, ao3 is a much better website. I think I always got more comments on ffn though. You get kudos on ao3 but i don't want kudos, I want comments. It's annoying that you can rack up kudos without getting a single comment. One of the fics I show up there. It's got 4 chapters and a single comment but its got 19 kudos. How annoying. That's not even that bad though, like yeah I have a fic with 58 kudos and zero comments. I xposted the same thing on ffn and even though it got way less traffic, I still got two reviews. The comments i got on ffn were often blunt, sometimes just please update but gosh I liked them.
The only real way to talk to someone on ao3 is to literally comment on a fic and it will always be the author who might respond and comment back. That's it. It's crazy cause ffn has direct messaging and forums. Actual forums where you can talk about fics!!! Or whatever you want.
I hate this page, I never want to see these most recent 5. I want to see all. Also fandoms they've written for is so needless, why is that the top thing?
I just miss the personality of a ffn profile with the person showing a bit of personality before just a list of all their fics with an extra button to get to their favourites.
Not to mention, how much faster scrolling through ffn fics actually are.
Like
I can on average fit two ao3 fics on my screen, that is if they don't have too many tags and notice I have disabled additional tags by default to help out. (Why is there not a button to disable characters and pairings as well?) Fics with a longer description or more characters can easily fill my entire screen.
Okay, what about ffn?
I can easily fit five!!! There's limits to how big the descriptions are allowed to be and all the fic info is efficiently written on two lines so it's rarely more than that. ao3 does allow for a lot more info it can't be denied. I do like how every ffn fic is allowed a custom icon though. Also that publish date is right there.
Don't get me wrong, ao3 is a much better website. I think I always got more comments on ffn though. You get kudos on ao3 but i don't want kudos, I want comments. It's annoying that you can rack up kudos without getting a single comment. One of the fics I show up there. It's got 4 chapters and a single comment but its got 19 kudos. How annoying. That's not even that bad though, like yeah I have a fic with 58 kudos and zero comments. I xposted the same thing on ffn and even though it got way less traffic, I still got two reviews. The comments i got on ffn were often blunt, sometimes just please update but gosh I liked them.
The only real way to talk to someone on ao3 is to literally comment on a fic and it will always be the author who might respond and comment back. That's it. It's crazy cause ffn has direct messaging and forums. Actual forums where you can talk about fics!!! Or whatever you want.
